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VMware Infrastructure Engineer (Enterprise Storage / Cisco UCS / AWS)
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Evolve Today
For our business partner—an established US-based company specializing in server management, security, networking, and web development—we are looking for a VMware Infrastructure Engineer.
In this role, you will be at the core of the company's virtualization and data center infrastructure. Your mission will include deploying and maintaining VMware environments across multiple sites, provisioning and presenting enterprise SAN storage to ESXi, and supporting site recovery and business continuity. You will help ensure the performance, stability, and availability of the systems the business runs on.
You'll work closely with an experienced infrastructure team to plan capacity, troubleshoot performance end-to-end—from the array through to the hypervisor—and support the company's hybrid on-prem and cloud setups.
This is a fully remote, B2B opportunity, open only to candidates based in Romania.
Ready to take ownership of a production VMware and storage environment? Apply now and let's explore whether this opportunity is the right match for you
What You'll Do
VMware (core skill)
Evolve Today
For our business partner—an established US-based company specializing in server management, security, networking, and web development—we are looking for a VMware Infrastructure Engineer.
In this role, you will be at the core of the company's virtualization and data center infrastructure. Your mission will include deploying and maintaining VMware environments across multiple sites, provisioning and presenting enterprise SAN storage to ESXi, and supporting site recovery and business continuity. You will help ensure the performance, stability, and availability of the systems the business runs on.
You'll work closely with an experienced infrastructure team to plan capacity, troubleshoot performance end-to-end—from the array through to the hypervisor—and support the company's hybrid on-prem and cloud setups.
This is a fully remote, B2B opportunity, open only to candidates based in Romania.
Ready to take ownership of a production VMware and storage environment? Apply now and let's explore whether this opportunity is the right match for you
What You'll Do
- Install, configure, upgrade, and patch VMware ESXi and vCenter / vSphere
- Build and run clusters: HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion
- Manage storage virtualization in vSphere: VMFS and NFS datastores, datastore clusters / Storage DRS, thin vs thick provisioning, snapshots
- Design and maintain virtual networking: vSwitches and Distributed Switches, port groups, VLANs
- Handle the full VM lifecycle: templates, cloning, P2V/V2V migrations, performance troubleshooting
- Provision storage end-to-end for ESXi: create LUNs/volumes, host mapping, zoning/masking, present them as VMware datastores
- Do capacity planning, performance monitoring, and latency troubleshooting between ESXi and the array
- Deploy and manage EC2 instances: instance types, AMIs, key pairs, EBS volumes and snapshots
- Migrate or import workloads from VMware to AWS (AWS Application Migration Service, VM Import/Export)
- Document what you build, clearly enough that someone else can operate it
VMware (core skill)
- Hands-on production experience with VMware ESXi and vCenter / vSphere: installation, configuration, upgrades and patching
- Practical knowledge of clustering (HA, DRS, vMotion), datastores and virtual networking
- Experience with — or solid familiarity with — Site Recovery Manager / Live Site Recovery and Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)
- Hands-on experience with IBM Storage (FlashSystem / Storwize / SVC), Dell Compellent, EMC VNXe or comparable enterprise arrays
- Working knowledge of Fibre Channel and iSCSI, and how storage is provisioned and presented to ESXi hosts
- Able to work independently from deployment through to troubleshooting
- Writes clear documentation
- Communicates well with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Cisco UCS experience — used across all of our sites, so this is a real plus
- AWS EC2: deploying and managing instances (instance types, AMIs, key pairs, EBS volumes and snapshots), basic VPC / subnets/security groups, and VMware-to-AWS migrations (AWS Application Migration Service, VM Import/Export)
- NFS, multipathing on ESXi (PSP / Round Robin), array-side snapshots and replication, VAAI
- Backup and copy data management tools: Rubrik, IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management, or similar
- Certifications: VMware VCP-DCV, IBM Storage certifications, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or SysOps Administrator
- Scripting and automation: PowerCLI, PowerShell, AWS CLI
- Windows Server and Linux administration
- Hybrid setups (on-prem VMware + AWS) or VMware Cloud on AWS